Telescope and Instruments Nomenclature

Meeting in Strasbourg 2018, 21-23 Feb

presents the collaboration with Tarek Al-Ubaidi, Space research institute , Graz, Austria. From various lists of instruments and facilities, Tarek and col. have developed a library / code to merge similar items appearing in different lists. Several modes are available: merge 2 lists, merge several several lists, on ids, on names, with one or several passes with criteria refinements

Testing the merging scripts

lists of instruments/facilities to test : they have been uploaded to a git node here

how to documentation

tests:

iau-mpc wrt aas :

etc ..TBC

need to train the merging program , and give hints to the program and to the user for a sensible usage...

present Marion Schmidt 's list, from NED, compiled from a large nomber of existing liests : IAU-MPC, AAS, ADS, ESO instruments, etc. A rich list of more than 3000 entries to curate ... proposition to share the work after the project decided during the Lisa conference.